A few of the midfielders getting pelters, when for me we were toothless in attack and really didn’t make their keeper make a decent save.
At one bit we had 40 touches in the final 3rd compared to 8 for the plastics.
Also, their 1st 2 goals came from Jones slipping in the build ups, wear some decent studs!!!
Endo was the standout and we looked good when we played through him.
Jones is a good player, great close control, but for me he seems to lack having a good range or type of pass, he very rarely plays a through ball or switch of play and becomes too easy for the opposition to play against.
Thankless task for Endo, Elliott and Quansah today. Overlooked all season and given the opportunity to ‘prove themselves’ surrounded by players who have been on the piss all week and have one eye on the beach.
Thought Endo was our best player 1st half and added to my belief he’s been criminally under-used this season. Average/poor performances from Elliott and Quansah to be expected under the circumstances, if they are playing for their LFC futures in the last 4 games then at least give them a fucking chance.
I don’t buy into the “we’ve won the title so it doesn’t matter” narrative. It’s unprofessional and we’re the 1st to complain in the past when teams playing City throw the towel in before a ball is kicked. I don’t like losing to these fucking scum cunts either with their ‘sign on’ and ‘always the victim’ chants.
Gave Endo MOTM, again. If he’s got any sense he’ll go and play somewhere he’s appreciated next season.
Just want to try to give some context before dismissing the fringe players.
Had we played our strongest eleven we may or may not have got a result against a fired up Chelsea side, playing at Stamford Bridge, with a Champions League spot in sight. They are a big, powerful side, and they are stacked with expensive talent. Yes, also inconsistent, and they have squandered a lot of money, and are a horrible club from top to bottom too!
But any side, including our best eleven, might not have got out of there today with a result. So I don’t want to go too overboard on a couple of fringe players.
I thought Quansah had a decent game. Strong, fast, decent on the ball. Van Dijk smashed one off him in a bit of a panic/slash clearance to rebound in for the own goal. So unlucky. And then at the very end Szoboszlai made an inaccurate pass, not to a red shirt, but rather to a general area. Chelsea pounced and a penalty was awarded.
Quansah was so unlucky, and of all the players on the park, he needed it least, but two seniors were less than stellar and Quansah comes out of it stinking of shit. Poor chap.
Well not for me. I hope we keep him as I think he is a very good young central defender with loads of upside to come.
Harvey Elliott. He had a peripheral game, as did others to be fair. He looked a bit lightweight. I think he is a good player but on the whole he would probably be better advised moving on to play regularly elsewhere.
If you aren’t elite as a physical specimen, you have to be world class to make a telling contribution high up the pitch against a committed, physical side like Chelsea, who are also stacked with expensive talent.
Harvey is good, but not world class, and I expect him to move on for a decent sum and forge a decent Prem career elsewhere.
Still, today’s game was a bit of a thankless task to show what you can do. We are champions and Chelsea were fired up to get what they need for CL qualification.
On what I saw today I would definitely keep Quansah, but Elliott, Nunez, Jota, and one or two others, will likely be off if we get the right offers.
If nobody pays the money for Jota because of his injury record, he will be a rotation option, but I think Slot was using the game to show Hughes how we are lacking in a few puzzle pieces for next season.
Eh? Someone attempted to create moral equivalency between wearing a shirt that say “I belong to Jesus” and one that says “Allahu Akbar”, and I pointed out how absurd that was. Have a day off.
It’s difficult to convince anyone the club is taking it seriously if you make more changes than you would for an FA Cup game. Would the players feel the same regardless of the prematch team talk? As soon as I saw that lineup I was thinking it would be a rough 90.
Its funny how little I care for the rest of this season, but geez it still sucks to lose, especially to the plastics So now that was supposedly their “Statement Victory”?? Haha.
I wished we carried on a bit of shithousery after the whistle and has a laugh with the Chelsea players just to show the world, and them, that we couldn’t give a fuck and that their next opponent will give 10 times the effort we did. Virg certainly looked relaxed after!
It was the complete opposite of the home game where he neutralised Palmer, today Palmer took him for a dogwalk…stumbling all over the pitch, and dispossessed one too many times because he can’t spot an early pass.
It’s what we’ve come to know about Jones, he’s the same player he was 5 years ago…stuck in his ways with the same bad habits he’s carried along the way, only difference is he’s more experienced and thus ready to see more game time.
Curtis Jones is a quality player, but there is some coaching to be done on his use of the ball. Because he is extremely press resistant, his first instinct is to shield the ball and hold possession and as a result and he tends to miss opportunities to release teammates.
We need six good options in midfield, and Curtis is one. But he could do with watching some tapes of his Mac Allister uses the ball.
I think you and others saying this are a bit unfair. Arne has won us the league and is above criticism for team selection, but the obvious (to me it is obvious at least) consequence of doing it the way he has done it (running basically one team through the season), is that the second string players will be extremely rusty and lack match training.
I find it impossible to expect that players that play so little can come in and be as good as the others.
Do not expect our second string players or reserves to be as good or have the same impact as they had under Klopp. Lack of matching is no joke.
Not terribly fussed about this,TBH,just won the title still many on a serious high.Do not understand why Slot made so many changes though, had to unbalance the lads a bit,2 or 3 you’d expect but not wholesale.
Although if he did it with an eye to Arse,and it comes off we will all be happy again.
